"In Albert J. Churella's talented hands, the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad comes to life in the form of superbly constructed accounts of overnight trains, steam and electric power, commuter lines, hard-working executives like James Symes and his successor Stuart Sanders, and the skilled and equally hard-working women and men who made the trains run, serving both commuters and shippers. As well, Churella has much to teach us about wage demands, aggressive and insular politicians, and federal and state railroad policies that helped push the "Standard Railroad of the World" into a merger with the New York Central in 1968 and into bankruptcy in 1970. Every railfan and citizen will enjoy Churella's riveting and deeply researched account, the third volume in his magisterial trilogy. And the photographs are gorgeous."?Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University